On Sun, 21 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > What if you simply tuned a cheap FM receiver to just static and fed
> > that into a soundcard. Then reading from /dev/dsp or something would
> > return pretty good random data, right ?
>
> An attacker with a radio transmitter...
Faraday's cage + mic with a nasty loopback. The real problem being: you
want a random data with known distribution and none of these methods will
give that.
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